TY - GEN T1 - The red pencil : convictions from experience in education A1 - Sizer, Theodore R. LA - English PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2004 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn182530347 AB - This engaging and important book is a critique of American education wrapped in a memoir. Drawing on his fifty years as teacher, principal, researcher, professor, and dean, Theodore R. Sizer identifies three crucial areas in which policy discussion about public education has been dangerously silent. He argues that we must break that silence and rethink how to educate our youth. Sizer discusses our failure to differentiate between teaching and learning, noting that formal schooling must adapt to and confront the powerful influences found outside traditional classrooms. He examines the practical as well as philosophical necessity for sharing policy-making authority among families, schools, and centralized governments. And he denounces our fetish with order, our belief that the familiar routines that have existed for generations are the only way to bring learning to children. Sizer provides alternatives to these failed routines - guidelines for creating a new educational system that would, among other things, break with wasteful traditional practice, utilize agencies and arrangements beyond the school building, and design each child's educational programme around his or her particular needs and potential. OP - 131 CN - LA222 .S546 2004eb SN - 9780300128512 SN - 0300128517 SN - 0300104588 SN - 9780300104585 SN - 1281721816 SN - 9781281721815 KW - Sizer, Theodore R. KW - Education, Secondary : United States. KW - Enseignement secondaire : EĢtats-Unis. KW - EDUCATION : Secondary. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Educators. KW - Education, Secondary KW - United States ER -